Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
December 22nd, 2014 at 10:14AM
“assholes in the luxury boxes”
Several decades ago I got to sit in a box at Texas Stadium, courtesy of a vendor, and watch the Dallas Cowboys play. When I looked down at individuals in the crowd, it was obvious that was exactly what they thought of those of us in the boxes.
On the other hand, sitting in a box while someone else pays for the parking, the tickets, the food, and the booze is a really good deal.
December 22nd, 2014 at 10:21AM
JND: It does sound like a good deal.
December 22nd, 2014 at 10:31AM
as with climate change the only glimmers of reason seem to come from troubles with insurance coverage.
December 22nd, 2014 at 10:33AM
dmf: LOL.
December 23rd, 2014 at 12:21AM
Just what do CSU students think of having their tuition jacked up in order to pay for this “gathering place?” Apparently, not much.
http://www.collegian.com/2014/…of-student-poll-on-stadium/104989 Cached
When polled, they said they would pay for a re-furbishing of the current stadium, but no to any new on campus monstrosity. Yeah, but, they’re only the proles who have to bear whatever burdens the Thought Police decide are appropriate. Appropriate being, the Wall Street money palaces that will underwrite and invest in the public bonds, and the construction magnates that will get the contracts, they’ll get richer. The students, they’ll have more debt that is rapidly becoming unlikely to ever be paid. Why would anyone attend a school that thinks this little of their undergrads?